Derate The Hate

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Our country has been faced with, and is still facing extraordinary and unprecedented times in so many ways. Not only have we been plagued by a pandemic that is contributing to the loss of many of our friends and neighbors, but our government's reaction to the pandemic is taking an incredible toll of it's own. W...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) You know the phrase, "welcome to so & so, what can I get for you today" or some variation thereof... I don't know what it's like where you live, but it seems you cannot drive past a fast food restaurant around here without seeing a line stretched completely around the building. What's going o...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) In this current age of toxicity people often assume if someone states something they don't agree with, the automatic reaction is "YOU'RE LYING"... Are they really lying, or are they wrong? Can someone be wrong, and be sincere, but not be lying? Just because someone is sincere about their beliefs, does...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What is a person of influence ? When most people think of people of influence, they often think of sports stars, celebrities, politicians, etc. What if I told you that you that you, no matter what you think of yourself, are most likely in some way a person of influence? This week I talk a little about one of the most wel...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Have you ever had the winter blues? Do you know what the winter blues is ? In a conversation I was recently having with some friends, a friend of mine mentioned the winter solstice , how the days were now going to start getting longer again, and how we were getting closer to spring and all the happiness that comes along...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) January 8 is not just another date for this family... In 1996 I was building houses in the foothills of the rockies and I found out my little sister had a baby boy. Kodi Allen Schroeder was born this day, 1/8/1996 In 2010 I was driving truck and unloading a load of propane in River Falls, Wisconsin when I got the call, m...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Are you one that makes new year's resolutions?  Have you ever made a new year's resolution that you've kept, or what's the longest you've stuck with that resolution? On average, more than 80% of new year's resolutions fail before the second week in February . What if instead of wasting our e...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) It's the holiday season once again, and the final DTH episode for 2021!!  I would just like to take this opportunity to say how grateful I am for my family and all those that support me in my efforts to make the world a better place.  This is not a long episode, but in it I highlight a conversation that I recently h...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) He saw Black Lives Matter yucking it up with ANTIFA, having a grand ol' time while black and brown businesses were burning, and Kevin McGary knew that something had to change. He figured people would see through the facade, but as things calmed down, and some of the noise subsided, people still didn't get it......

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) “If there is any one secret to success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” ~ Henry Ford In several of the conversations I’ve had the opportunity to have on the Derate the Hate podcast, many of my guests have either alluded to o...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Can you imagine spending a cold winter's night on a rooftop, in the windy city of Chicago? How about spending 100 cold winter nights on a rooftop in one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods? What if the cause was so great that you felt called to do so? Well Pastor Corey Brooks felt that calling, and he is...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Fans of the Derate the Hate podcast know that I love stories of those who triumph over adversity, and those who persevere through the toughest times in life to come out on the other side and start their own journey towards bettering the world. Being able to forgive is not something that comes easily to everyone, and to s...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I recently read an article that peaked my interest because it said something to the effect of "Flight Attendants' jobs have never been more dangerous". Obviously there had to be something here that involved hate, and I wanted to know why. Why is it that people have suddenly taken to hating flight attendant...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) It seems you cannot open an internet browser, browse social media, turn on a television or listen to the radio without finding out some group of "offended" or "aggrieved" people are again protesting something. Are all these people victims of something, or what I've referred to as those with the P...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) No situation in life has ever been made better by those who constantly beat the drum of negativity and/or victimhood. As someone who spent a large portion of my life with a bad attitude, I can definitively say that statement because I know it to be true. Gratitude is something I speak of often in this podcast, and in my...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Friends, I have talked about it time and time again on the DTH podcast, the victim mentality just produces more victimhood. This week's guest knows all to well what it's like to be a victim, be stuck in the warm waters of victimhood, and the results that brings. She is also one that knows how to pull herself ou...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) You're cruising down the highway, passing those in the right lane who obviously don't have anywhere to go that is quite as important as your time or where you're headed, and it happens...  Everything was going just as you had hoped and then you come upon that person in the left lane that is creeping along...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Are  you someone who has worked hard and has some nice things? Are you proud to have those things? Have you ever been confronted by someone who says, "it must be nice" as if you somehow don't deserve, or didn't earn those things? Envy is an Ugly Emotion... an emotion that leads to resentment, anger an...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) In the United States, there are in excess of three quarters of a million law enforcement personnel working to keep our citizens safe from the evil forces that would do us harm. The "Thin Blue Line" as it is often called, is the only thing standing between peace and chaos. Some would have you believe that the sy...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) "Everybody wants to be the hero in their own life story". Fred Cook's former lifestyle of hatred as a long time member of, and Chief of Staff for the National Socialist Movement, like so many others, did not start with him waking up one day deciding he wanted to live a hate filled life full of enemies. As...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Preview clip of Wilk's conversation with Fred Cook, former Chief of Staff for the National Socialist Movement, now interventionist who has converted to Judaism The world is a better place if we are better people. Be grateful for all you’ve got. Make every day the day that you want it to be! Please follow the DTH pod...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) I asked the question last week, "What do you think of the K-12 public education system as it exists today?" I think that most people who are paying attention, if being intellectually honest, would say that it's a complete mess and it's in many ways out of control. It is certainly out of control in ter...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What are your thoughts on the K-12 public education system as it exists today in our country? In recent weeks and months we've seen several instances where fed up parents and community members have stood up to school boards all over the country, due to any number or reasons, be it CRT, LGBTQ curriculum, mask mandate...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) This week's topic comes straight out of an experience I had this past weekend when my wife and I were attending a group function on the St. Croix River in Stillwater, MN . As we were paying for parking, we encountered a shining example of the reason I came up with the phrase, "No matter how right you think you...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Have you ever had a conversation with someone and came away thinking, if the world had more thinkers such as this, the world would be a much calmer and better place for everyone? The deep thinker I’m talking about is Angel Eduardo and I’m grateful this week for having the opportunity to speak with Angel on the Derate the...